Products in spin$^c$-cobordism
Algebraic Topology
2025-10-28 v2
Abstract
We calculate the mod spin-cobordism ring up to uniform -isomorphism (i.e., inseparable isogeny). As a consequence we get the prime ideal spectrum of the mod spin-cobordism ring. We also calculate the mod spin-cobordism ring ``on the nose'' in degrees . We construct an infinitely generated nonunital subring of the -torsion in the spin-cobordism ring. We use our calculations of product structure in the spin and spin cobordism rings to give an explicit example, up to cobordism, of a compact -dimensional spin manifold which is not cobordant to a sum of squares, which was asked about in a 1965 question of Milnor.
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@article{arxiv.2407.10045,
title = {Products in spin$^c$-cobordism},
author = {Hassan Abdallah and Andrew Salch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10045},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Final version incorporating referee comments. Published in International Mathematics Research Notices (IMRN)